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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-01-07

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St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
ANOTHER RIVAL GONE.
The Alpha Oil Company, Com
petitor of the Standard, As
signs.

The Alpha Oil Company. a Com
petitor of the Standard, As
signs.
CHICAGO. Oct. ga special to the
Tribune from Detroit says: The man.
ayers of the Alpha Oil company, the
young rival of the Standard Oil monop-
oily, have made an assignment. Its cap
ital, with that of branch institutions,
was S6,O0O,O0O. Its leading spirits are the
most prominent men of Detroit and
Michigan, with sprinkling of Cleve-
land millionaires. Judge Isaac Mars
ton is secretary and treasurer of. the In
ternatiOnal Oil company, which has the
same patents as the Alpha, the Ameri-
can branch of the organization. He
says the International company is not
affected by the troubles of the Alpha
company, and that the latter concern
will be reorganiZed and continue.
The whole interests of both the Alpha
and International companies are
founded Oh the inventions of T. &.
Hall, of Chicago, who had his process
of refining patented in the United
States, Canada and all the European
countries, including Russia. The pro-
curing of these patents cost 5000, 900.
The International Oil Refining com
pany, of Michigan, was formed in July
Last. 1t owns eight-twelfths of the
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Human Life Is CheaD.

CHICAGO, Oct. ga Galesburg, ILL.,,
special says: The attorney represent
ing the Toledo, Peoria & Western rail-
road was here yesterday and arranged
for paying the following amounts as
settlement in full for deaths and injur-
les occurring at the Chatsworth wreck
to Knox county people: To Mrs. w. NJ.
TrOvillo, Abingdon, husband killed.
$1,000: to Rev. Mr.. Snedaker, Abing-
don, death of wife, 81, 400, injury to SON
$4,000; to J. II. Armstrong, Abingdon,
loss of eye, $500; to Mrs. Sidney Smith,
Galesburg, injury to back, S1,175.
The following adjustments have been
practically agreed upon: To Mrs. w.
NJ. Collins, husband killed, $1,000; to
Mrs. Fl. II. Van LEW, husband killed,
$4,000. Minor claims of Mrs. w. c..
Parker and Mrs. Walter Quicker were
settled. An offer of $3.50 to Mrs. c. E..
Allen, injured in the wreck, was re-
fused. The attorney in the cases set
tied here gave drafts that were promptly
hOnOred
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
BATES ON THE B. & 0.
The President of the Balti-
more & Ohio Telegraph
Company Talks
A Threatened Indictment Of
Gould and Sage--Items
Of Railway News.
Defending Garrett Against
Reports Of Fast and Riot
Gus Living,
At the Same Time Explaining
Some Things in Connec-
tion With the Deal.

New YORK, Oct. 22.-RObert Garrett,
late president of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad company, leaves in the morn
ing for a trip to Mexico and the West.
He will go via Chicago, and will be ac-
cOmpanied by Mrs. Garrett and few of
his friends. Some of his New York
friends went down to Baltimore to-day
to see him off. This occasion brought
up for condemnation some publications
recently made in two or three papers
retlecting ON Mr.. Garrett'S personal and
business habits. They were pronounced
gross eXaggeratiOns and largely untrue.
Said Mr.. Bates, president of the Balti-
more IL Ohio Telegraph company, to a
reporter:
L have breakfasted, lunched and dined
with Garrett more than fifty times in the
past few years, frequently i'll the Central
building i'll Baltimore, and never but once
was there wine or liquor served, and on that,
occasion Mr.. Garrett partook but sparingly,
causing me to remark upon his abstemious-
ness Many of my engagements with him
were early III the morning, generally before
ways found him on hand upon my arrival,
with a considerable part of his official mail
already disposed of. He was systematic in
his methods, and dispatched business with
remarkable rapidity, which showed we'll
There has been good deal of criticism
as to the Baltimore IL Ohio Railroad COM
pany being concerned in telegraph sys-
tenn, and much speculation has been in
dulged i'll, and differences drawn which are
unwarranted by the facts
las regards the statement that the Balti-
more IL Ohio telegraph has been an item of
expense to the railroad company of 1000
a month for the past five years. the statement
is untrue.
There has in fact been no loss whatever to
the Baltimore d Ohio Railroad or Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph company from the opera
ton of the telegraph system up to last April
Since then influences largely beyond tele-
graphic control have caused n falling Off, but
the entire loss for the past six months ending
Sept. 80, has been less than the amount paid
over during the same period by the telegraph
to the railroad company for the use of wires
and offices on the line OF the Baltimore &
Ohio road
The Baltimore & Ohio extensions began
under my direction in 1884 and were practic-
ally all completed in 1885, a limited mileage
of additional wires on trunk routes only be-
ing added in 1886 and 1887. The condition
of these lines and the business done and
their capacity for business were clearly
shown i'll interviews with Dr.. Green and my
self published few days ago. Whether
railroad company may be properly interested
in a telegraphic system need not be consid-
cred, and refer to this subject only to show
the injustice of the criticism made on Mr..
Garrett's connection with the telegraph. The
public and the press have been so much
benefited as to lead one to seXpect at least
fair dealing for the master spirit in the en-
terpriSe
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
LAST OF THE VICTIMS.
Herman Miller is the Only Ont
T,aft nP tho Hours Cuf,ara,s

Herman Miller IS the Only One
Left of the Kouts Sufferers.
CHICAGO, Oct. GA special from
KOuts, Ind, says: The last human
fragment of the horrible railroad diSaS-
ter that occurred two miles west of here
on the Chicago q Atlantic road on the
night Cf the 10th inst. remaining at
Kouts is little Herman Miller. He still
remains at the house of George II. Mil
Ter, and is watched over and cared for
by Mrs. Godfrey Niman. who has re-
manned with him constantly since the
morning he was brought to Kouts. The
fate of his father, mother, sister Minnie,
and brothers William and Fred, was
never made known to him until
Wednesday of this week, when, in
answer to the repeated appeals
from the little sufferer as to the
whereabouts of his parents, his nurse
told him of their horrible fate. When
the accident first occurred it was sup
posed that ise was the only member of
the family living. until recently he told
his nurse that he had brother Carl, who
is twenty-eight years of age, somewhere
in Germany. His father left Germany
two years ago, leaving his son Carl
there. No efforts will be spared to find
the whereabouts Of Carl. Joseph Nc
fated train and sustained a very painful
injury. has left Kouts. 1t is understood
that he compromised with the company
for 81 900. Mrs. G. Winslow, of Chicago,
was here this week in search of friend
that she claims boarded the train al
Chicago and has never been heard from
since
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
LINCOLN IN BRONZE.
4 Statue Of the Martyred President Un.
veiled in Chicago.
LITTLE ABE DROPS THE VEIL
Scholarly Grafton by Leonard SWEET
on the Life and Character of
Lincoln.

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-The great statue
of Abraham Lincoln was unveiled this
afternoon at l. incoln park in the pres
ence of large crowd that had braved
the chilly wind from the lake and as
Sembied to witness the ceremony
Shortly before 2 o'clock the booming of
cannon startled the assembled multi
tude, and as the sound died away over
the waters of Lake Michigan little
ABE" Lincoln, the son of Robert Lin
coin, stepped up on the base of the flag
covered bronze figure OF his grandfather
and pulled a rope which held the cover
ing. The folds unloosened and dropped
down at the base, and the tall, erect fig
ure of Abraham Lincoln shOne brightly
in the sun, which struggled through the
clouds at that moment. A tremendous
shout went up from the 5000 people as
Sembled, and it was joined a moment
later by the roar from the cannon.
Thomas F. Withrow, one of the trustees
OF the Bates fund, out of which the cost
of the statue was betrayed, formally
presented the figure to the Lincoln Park
board, and w. G. Goudy replied in be-
half of the board The Grafton was de-
livered by Hon. Leonard SWEET, whose
intimate political, social and domestic
relations with the great president have
made him one of the best informed men
now living Oh Lincoln's life. AS con-
densed biography of Lincoln it has not
been excelled, and it contains anecdotes
and "reminiscences which have never
before been published.
1t would not have been possible for any
other soil on the globe, or any country other
than America, or any other civilization than
our own, to have pro oduced him. lie was
emphatically the child of the republic and
the product of our institutions. He was ''of
the people and for the people" After giving
a brief sketch of Lincolns youth, Mr. SWEET
continued: The most marked characteristic
of Mr.. Lincoln was his parsonal peculiarity.
No one who knew him ever knew another
man like him. He stands out from the whole
world of his time, isolated ard alone. l rode
1.-The eighth judicial circuit with him for
eleven years. and i'll the allotment between
him and the large Davis, in the scanty provi
sions of those times, as a rule, slept with
him. His character was that of great direct
ness and extreme simplicity. Clothing, to
him, was made for covering and warmth to
the body, and not for ornament. He never
in his life once got the better of his fellow
man in a trade and never loaned money on
interest. l never knew him but once to bor-
row money or give his note.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
A MILE TOO LATE.
The Statute of Limitations Will
Save Gould and Sage.

New YORK, Oct. 22.-WilHam H. De-
lancy. representing the old stockholders
of the Kansas Pacific, to-day filed in the
district attorneys Office three bulky
documents of typewriter matter, which
he desires shall be submitted to the
grand jury with view to indicting Jay
Gould and Russell Sage for grand lar
ceny. The papers allege that Messrs.
Gould and Sage were guilty of that
crime because, as he claims, they ap-
propriated s6,0G0,O00 worth of stocks
and bonds belonging to Lawyer Delan-
cey's clients in January, 1870. The GER
tificateS were Of $4,000 shares of the
Denver & Pacific railroad and telegraph
stock. The district attorney glanced
over the papers and then put them
aside. He will examine them closely
and decide whether or not the matter
should be given to the grand jury. If
it is true that the alleged felOni0us ap-
preparation occurred in 1870, no crini-
nal action can be instituted, the law ex-
plicitly reciting that no criminal pro-
ceedings will hold good after the expira-
ton of five years.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Report Denied,

ST. LOUIS, Oct. pa dispatch from
the agent of the Associated Press at
Fort Smith, Ark, says the reported con-
flict with outlaws in the Indian Terri
tory lacks confirmation The United
States marshal here has full facilities
for getting news from the territory, but
has no report of the affair referred to.
Deputy marshals just in from the scene
OF the reported conflict, say there is NO
truth in the report. Trainer, the re-
ported leader of the outlaws, standsii II
dlcted for murder and whisky selling,
but has no gang with him. Certain par
ties are preparing to create an inlpr es-
sion that lawlessness prevails in the In
dian Territory in order to get United
States troops there, and there is a good
deal Of apprehension that trouble may
grow out of the late Cherokee election
when the national council meets.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
S1.5O S1.25 SI.OO 8
SI.oU SI.Zo SI.UU 81
Through from Chi
cago to Fargo. 80. .S1.10 .93 ~ IS,
Second-Class Traffic.

New YORK, Oct. 22.-The differential
rate railroad lines held meeting to-day
and asked that full rate roads abandon
secOnd-class passenger traffic entirely
and so divert all such to the former. No
determination was reached, but an
other meeting will be held next week
to act further regarding the matter. 1t
is understood the Pennsylvania road is
willing to join the Central road in ac-
ceding to the proposition of the differ
ential lines. The Central is not un-
willing to abandon its second-class busi-
ness in Castle garden. The Central
road has, however, very useful annex
in the West Shore if the second-class
business is left entirely to the differ
differential rate line, which will share
in the advantages of he proposed ar
rangement.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Over Sixty People Reported
Lost by the Sinking of a
Lake Steamer.
No Confirmation Of the Rumop
Thus Far, Nor Any Trace
Of the Wreck.
An Oven Explodes, Killing
Three and Seriously Injur-
ing Two others.
Last of the Kouts Disaster
Casualties Of Various
Kinds and Degrees.

CHICAGO, Oct. pa special from
Harbor Springs, Mich, says: 1t was
reported that steamer of some deScrip
tiOn went down near the Sault Ste. Ma
rie Thursday night, and that only eleven
of Seventy-tive persons were saved.
There is nothing definite yet.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Oct. o.
AS far as can be aScertained, the rumOr
that a vessel foundered near here last
night, and that a large number of lives
were lost, is without foundation. The
rumor was current here, but it can be
traced to no reliable source, and is gen.
orally regarded as silly canard. The
matter is being carefully investigated,
however, and additional search for any
traces of the wreck is being carried on.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

United States and European patents.
The Alpha company on the Canadian
side was capitalized for $1,000. 900, and
on the American side, the branch which
depended on the same discoveries of
Hall, was capitalized at s5,0O0,00O. The
crisis was recently reached. Money had
been so laviShly spent that the supply
gave out. The wages of workmen
were not paid, and law suits
were commenced representing claims
of the labOring men. The
company decided its property to Mr..
Hall for 100000. and Hall assigned it
to Mayor Thurber, of Marquette. Ac-
c0rding to the records this leaves Mr..
Thurber as the practical owner. The
outcome will be a matter of great finan-
cial moment in Detroit and Michigan.
The company had constructed pipe
line to the Canadian oil fields. built i'm
mense oil machine shops and started a
bank to conduct its finances.
SARNIA, Ont, Oct. 22.-T. G. Hall, of
the Alpha Oil company, has taken ac-
ton against local paper for $4,000
damages for an alleged libelouS article
regarding Halls process of refining oil.
In the course of an interview this even
ing Mr.. Hall said, that while he was
temporarily embarrassed, there has been
no assignment made and the company
was entirely solvent.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

KICKING CANADIANS
Blatant Chamberlain's Course
Seyerly Condemned on all Sides.

SeFerly condemned on all SlueS.
New YORK, Oct. 22.-An Ottawa
special says: Without waiting to ar
rive in Canada, the British fisheries
commissioner, Mir. Chamberlain, has, In
giving free expression to his views of
the question of commercial union and
the relationship between Canada and
Great Britain on the fisheries question,
succeeded in raising hornets nest
that waits to swarm about his ears when
he arrives on this side of the Atlantic.
The press of Canada generally, irres-
pectiye of party politics, is already TAX
ing exception to his utterances at Biz
minghanl, in which he is reported as
having said, in referring to the fisheries
question, that in the present case Great
Britain is in a position which is al
most that of an impartial observer,
not directly or Immediately concerned
i'll the controversy raised. In his Bel
fast speech he said commercial union
with the United States meant free trade
between America and the Dominion,
and protective tariff against the
mother country. which practically
meant political separation from Great
Britain, and this has raised the indigna-
tlOn of those who are endeavOring to eX-
eOAio S<NiotiHS pC-
tween Canada and the United States.
The Free Press, one of the leading Lib
eral organs, charges him with ignorance
of Canadian affairs, qualification not
likely to assist him in his duties in ad-
Indicating in the interests of Canada on
the fisheries commission. while his pro-
n0unced determination to oppose closer
commercial intercourse brands him as
an enemy of RECIPROCITY or any enlarge
ment of trade relations between
the United States and Canada.
Prof. Goodwin Smith is of the opinion
that Mr.. Chamberlain must have been
wrongly reported, as in private letter
to friend recently he speaks of him.
self as imperfectly informed as to the
internal policy of the Dominion. He
thinks it a remarkable fact that Mr..
Chamberlain, as an ambassador, should
undertake to make such declaration
upon question which he processes to
know nothing about, and that the sys-
tenn which intrusts negotiations con-
corning Canada'S interests to other than
Canadian hands is an extremely dam
gerous one. 1t is said in official circles
here that the suggestion of Lord Duf-
ferin that Chamberlain should consult
Sir John Macdonald before going to
Washington was prompted by his
knowledge of Chamberlain's lack of in
formation regarding Canadian affairs
and his seeming indifference to the in
terests of the Dominion.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
CANADIAN MATTERS.
A New Mail ROute---Comme erciaI
LOanS---The Seal Seizures


CHICAGO, Oct. ga Daily News
special from Montreal, Can. says: AT
meeting of the bankers of this city
yesterday the question of the rate of
interest on commercial loans was con-
Sidered. In view of the increased de-
mand for money it was decided that the
minimum rate of interest should not be
under per cent.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. pa special to the
Republican from Ottowa, Ont, says the
Dominion government has completed
an arrangement for the transportation
of mails on the new route between
Great Britain and Japan via the Cana
dian Pacific railway. Vancouver will
be made postal center under the new
arrangement, and all foreign mails com
ing east and destined for points III the
United States and Canada will be dis
tributed from there. The sorting of
foreign mails in course of ira nShipment
will be done at Montreal, which will be
the other postal terminus of the route.
OTTAWA, Ont, Oct. 22.-It is believed
here that the reported rupture between
Secretary Bayard and Attorney Gen
eral Garland over the Behring sea
seizures, and the formers tacit admis-
sion that the Canadian sealers were ille-
gally seized, will enable the Dominion
government to obtain compensation for
their owners without difficulty.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
FATAL EXPLOSION.
An Oven EXplodes, Killing Three
and Injuring Two.

WATERBURY,, Conn, Oct. 22.-A hor-
rible casualty threw Bristol into intense
excitement at noon to-day. The oven
used for japanning at the works of J. H.
Sessens x Co. exploded with terrific
force, immediately setting the building
on fire. There were ten male employees
of the concern i'll the room at the time.
When the fire was eXtinguished shortly
afterward three dead bodies were taken
from the ruinS-NNillie Young. aged
fourteen; Burt Cleveland, aged fifteen,
and John Shane, aged thirty-one. Others
who severely injured are Daniel Griffin,
aged fourteen, and Willie Bonnie, aged
fifteen. There is no reason given for
the explosion, nor is any person re-
SpOnSible for the accident
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
CHICAGO MARKETS.
A Quiet Saturday in Grain and
Provisions.


Provisions.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Oct. 222.-The grain markets
opened quiet and firm. During the
first hour wheat advanced &c, and corn
remained very nearly stationery, with
an undertOne of SteadineSS. December
wheat ranged FROM 733ssQ97311Sc and May
from 7Sa24(079c up to 1920, and the mar
ket was steady at the top at the moment.
November and December corn sold at
41c and trading in May for the first
hour was at 4451s0}45e. Provisions
proved prices, January pork
starting off at sl2.12115, January lard at
S6.1719, and January ribs at S6.121S.
The official report OF receipts yeSter-
day shows: Wheat, 149 cars; corn, 3s665 3665
cars; oats, 1870 cars; hogs, 1900 head
Wheat was dull after the first hour, and
toward the close developed symptoms
of decided weakness. December ranged
at 735S@73c. and May 791sl07S1Ic.
The early buying was Supposed
account, and the late selling
was due largely to the belief that Ream.
Partridge and other local operators had
sold out considerable long wheat on the
bulge. Cables We're firm, but Shippers
do not report a heavy business esEhe
American markets have advanced a
little faster than the foreign markets,
but the old world keeps crawling along.
AS yet the Chicago and New York
markets are narrow. The several mill
ions of long wheat for speculative
investment account on the books of
commission houses are about offset by
the short lines represented by Cudahy
and few other s'Old line" bears, who
keep short of the market through thick
and thin OH the theory that the carrying
charges cannot be beaten. They leave
the market largely to the control
of the scalpers, who make
the daily fluctuations. Corn
ruled dull and price deviations
were very small, being confined to &c
all day. Oats, too. were dull. The
range table showed that provisions were
just barely alive and values averaged
firm at the range previously established,
or shade better. Estimated receipts
tomorrow: 167 ears of wheat, 5S7 cars
of corn, 2S5 cars of oats.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Threatened Strike.

PrrTsBURG, Oct. ga Scottdale,
Pa, special says: The coke workers
belonging to the Knights of Labor have
notified the operators of the Connells-
vile region that settlement of the
wages question must be effected before
next Wednesday, otherwise shike will
be ordered.
An operator who was seen this after
noon said: I'VE have received no
notice from the leaders of the cokers.
do not anticipate any further trouble,
for even if the men are called out the
majority are opposed to another strike.
The region is full of unknown men who
are but two willing to work at the good
wages being paid.'
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
An Engineer Fatally Injured.

New YORK, Oct. 22.-The air-brakes
on the Boonton express, of the Della
ware, Lackawanna Il Western railroad.
failed to work as the train was entering
the Hoboken depot this morning and the
engine dashed into two Pullman cars
that were standing on the track and
completely wrecked them. The en-
gineer, James Dunn, was fatally in
jured, but no one else was hurt.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
RegimentaI Reunion.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 22-The reunion
of the Thirty Ohio Volunteer in
fantry regiment at Hamilton yesterday
was the best attended of any since the
war. About $50 survivors were present.
Gen. II. V. BOynton, of Washington,
and Gen. Ferd Vanderveer, of Hamil-
ton, made speeches.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
A False RenOrt.

DETROIT, Oct. pa special from
Sheboygan, Mich, to the Evening Jour
nal says: The Canadian propeller On
tario is reported blown to pieces by
the explosion of her boiler in North
channel, near Bruce Mines. and thirty
be obtained, the place being isolated
from any port or telegraph station.
DETROIT, Oct. 22.-The Canadian pro-
peller Ontario is in the dry dock here
for minor rpnairS
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
A Threatening Fire,

ST. LOUIS, Oct. pa fire broke out
at O'Clock this evening in Mitchelrs
shoe store between Fourth and Fifth
streets On Washington avenue, and at
the present writing the fire has got into
Scarret'S furniture store on Washing
ton avenue and threatens the whole
block between Fourth and Fifth streets
and Washington and Christy avenues.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Gustave Heinemann's Dry Goods
Store

to secure some of the extraordinary bar
gains offered at this popular es stablish-
ment. For tomorrow the eXtraordi-
nary sale Of silks and velvets announced
by them will undoubtedly draw the
crowd again. Mr.. Heinemann contem-
plates extensive changes in his stock
and says he wants the room and the
stock must 90.